@aaronspring @cgentemann @NickMortimer -
Thanks for the offers of help. A few bits of work that would help please shout if your keen to tackle any of them:
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We are releasing the data under the Microsoft Open Datasets initiative. I’ve created an example of accessing and using the data here - https://github.com/informatics-lab/covid19-ai4earth-examples it’s got a launch in My Binder link if you want to test out. This could really do with some more examples to help the epidemiologist community that is much less familiar with this type of data. Would be great to have some R examples too (don’t know if that can also work with Binder?).
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We have an academic from Pen State Uni doing some interesting research who could do with help processing the gridded data with shapefiles and population density information to get population-weighted regional aggregations. Get in touch if this is something you could help with.
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analytics on the platform. As you can see in this thread Capturing / recording usage analytics I’ve got some advice but haven’t had the time to implement it.
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We are likely building more platforms, hopefully with Microsoft support but a lot of the target users will be R users. We don’t have a lot of R expertise in our team so if you can help or advice in this space let me know.
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The data is in NetCDFs it would be good to offer as Zarr or more appropriate cloud format but we’ve not found the time to set up a pipeline to do that (we update the data approx each week).
We are trying to spin up a project board here so feel free to add issues or comment there too.
Thanks for everyone’s support.
Hope you and yours are all keeping safe and well.
All the best.